Episode 45: Episode 45 - Web Carnival 2023 Preview

Joining Christian on this episode is Jo Gakonga, a Teacher educator and online course creator, to discuss her interest in early career teachers. This episode is the final part of our Future of Teacher Development strand.

Jo has worked in ELT for over 30 years in a range of countries and contexts including Taiwan, the Czech Republic, Kenya and Switzerland. She's a CELTA trainer, assessor and Joint Chief Assessor, she co-authored IELTS Foundation (Macmillan). and runs ELT-Training.com, which has a range of courses for English language teachers. She also recently completed a PhD on mentoring.

In this episode, Christian talks with Sandy Millin about the future of Teacher Development from her perspective, especially focusing on the power of blogs and social media. 

Read Sandy Millin's Blog here: https://sandymillin.wordpress.com/

British Council Webinar with Sandy Millin: Professional development through blogs and blogging: https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/news-and-events/webinars/webinars-teachers/sandy-millin-professional-development-through-blogs-and 

Follow Sandy on LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandymillin/

Joining us for episode 47 are Vicky Saumell & David Read. They help us to continue our investigation into the future of teacher development from a technology point of view.

Joining Christian in this latest episode of Developod are Claire Steele and Sarah Smith, Directors of Eltonix. They discuss the future of teacher development with a focus on 'bottom-up' teacher development, and in particular 'classroom-based inquiry' (or 'action research'), which they argue is both more teacher-centred and student-centred than most current forms of prescriptive professional development led by language school institutions.

Information about Eltonix:
Website: https://eltonix.com/
Facebook Group: eltonix connects (a fund, friendly and international TD community)

Previous related Developod episodes:
Episode 36 Classroom-Based Inquiry
Episode 18 Action Research
Episode 8 Creating a Culture of Teacher Development (with Silvana Richardson)

Join us as we preview this weekend’s annual TDSIG online conference, the Web Carnival. In this episode, James interviews two of our plenary speakers, Michelle Worgan and Cesar Correa Larroca, to find out more about their talks.

Register for the Web Carnival at tdsig.org/web-carnival

Michelle and Eloise’s The Teaching Lab: facebook.com/groups/eltteachinglab 

Joining Christian in the latest episode of Developod is David Valente, primary English teacher educator and researcher. They take a look at how the future of teacher development will affect young learner teachers.

USEFUL LINKS:

CEPELL resources: https://icepell.eu/

ICEKit materials: https://icepell.eu/index.php/icekits/

Reading for in-depth learning (Ridl) framework: https://site.nord.no/ellil/reading-for-in-depth-learning/

Materials from the  IATEFL YLTSIG website:

https://issuu.com/iatefl/docs/teylt_worldwide_issue_1__2020_special_appendix

ELLRA website: https://ellra.org/

In the latest episode of Developod, James is joined by Colm Downes to discuss how the climate crisis should be a central part of our teacher development.

About Colm:
ELT Assessment and Teacher Education, ESP, EAP, CLIL, Project Management & Climate Change Education Specialist.
Based in Jakarta, Indonesia - Colm is currently working on a range of projects as a freelance consultant for a variety of clients including the British Council, EnglishScore (a new mobile English proficiency test) and the World Bank. Colm has been involved in education, specifically language education and professional skills training, for over 25 years across Europe, the Middle East and East Asia. Recently (2019 - Sept 2022) Colm served as the Director English, Education and Society for the British Council Indonesia and was the British Council global technical lead for ‘Climate Action in Language Education’ for three years until Sept last year (2022). In this role, Colm developed a wide range of interconnected global innovations designed to train teachers how to integrate the climate crisis in English language teaching. These innovations include: a ten-part podcast series called ‘The Climate Connection’; a new professional development MOOC ‘Climate Action in Language Education’ as well as new video resources and a new publication with 30 climate themed activities for the language classroom. 

The British Council Climate Action in Language Education MOOC: teachingenglish.org.uk/training/climate-action-language-education - the MOOC will run again in Nov 2023 in line with COP28. 

The third in the series on 'The Future of Teacher Development in ELT', this episode hears from Silvana Richardson.

In episode 41 of Developod, James is joined by Cecilia Lemos and they discuss their new roles as coordinators of TDSIG. We also hear from Taiza Lombardi, the winner of this year's Michael Berman Scholarship, about her experiences at this year's IATEFL Conference in Harrogate.

To apply for our scholarships in 2023, go to https:// tdsig.org/scholarship/. The deadline is 21st of June.

The second in the series on 'The Future of Teacher Development in ELT', this episode hears from Richard Chinn and Danny Norrington-Davies, two teacher trainers and developers who have recently published a cutting edge book called 'Working with Emergent Language'.